How could I decide between dark lush Bing cherries and blushing rosy Queen Anne (or Rainier, take your pick) cherries? I couldn’t. So I got ’em both. I was making great inroads on them when I decided they needed a worthy bowl (beautiful Taizé special glaze) in order to have their portrait taken before I nibbled them all up.

All the while I was nibbling, the song kept echoing in my mind:

(This version is from the movie, Pennies from Heaven, with Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, and Jessica Harper mouthing away.)

The words were more downbeat than my memory had them, but the cheerful bouncy tune just wouldn’t quit. What’s that all about? Later that afternoon I had occasion to go to our local bank. The Hub transacted a little business while I looked over at the waiting area to be greeted by this:

It just doesn’t have the same lilt, does it? “Life is Just a Chicken of Cherries —” Nope. Synchronicity? Some deeper meaning? Afraid not! Guess I’ll take the song’s advice, “Just live and laugh at it all!”

There’s a Rudy Vallee from 1931 on Youtube. It’s terrific for the sound, the bounce and high pitch of that characteristic 20’s 30’s sound. But no visual movement. So I went with the Steve Martin, becuz I thought it was amazing to see him way back when. Do check out the Rudy Vallee for nostalgia’s sake.
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I love both the bowl and the chicken of cherries (and yes, as I write that it does sound faintly ridiculous!). Very photogenic, cherries. And that sweet, colourful arrangement in a bank?! I think you live in a most delightful town 🙂

My mother tells me that my folks were lying in bed munching their way through a bowl of cherries and trying to spit the pips out the window, discussing ‘the idea of having me’. So life and a bowl of cherries has meaning in my life!